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NCTM Academy. Assessment Elementary Mathematics Day 3 WOW!!!. Is this math?. What is the mathematics?. How might you informally assess ?. How might you formally assess?. Pocket Change. I have pennies, nickels and dimes in my pocket. I put 3 coins in a hand. How much money do
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NCTM Academy Assessment Elementary Mathematics Day 3 WOW!!!
Pocket Change I have pennies, nickels and dimes in my pocket. I put 3 coins in a hand. How much money do you think I have in my hand and why do you think that?
Portfolios?? The solution to educators problems or The next environmental waste hazard
‘Assessment’ Portfolio A purposeful collection that communicates a student’s efforts, progress, or achievement in a given area or areas. Arter, Spangler, 1991
Types of Portfolios • Professional • Classroom • Showcase • Scrapbook • Fat gradebook • Assessment
“You’re a three- toed sloth, Aaron. Math isn’t going to be your best subject.”
Evaluating Assessment Tasks • Mathematics • Appropriateness • Skills • Presentation • Thinking • Context p.33, 3-5
Scaffolding Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy point, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. And yet all this comes down when the job’s done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone. So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall. Seamus Heaney
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